“I'd like to be in a female version of The Fugitive. Something where I don't have to be ripped up like an action star, but be a normal, healthy lady who is framed and on the run. I'd have to run from explosions and punch people in the face but not rappel down a building.” PeopleRunningActionFacesStarsBuildingHealthyNormalFemaleVersionsExplosionsRippedFramedFugitive Author:Jenny Slate
“People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don't see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, "I'm going to hell because I don't really care about the environment and I love to gossip."” PeopleKnowsDoeCharacterCareForgetHellEnvironmentTroubleFemaleGossipFemale CharactersLikeable Author:Mindy Kaling
“It's interesting, gender versus race. I think people say that to women more: 'Oh, you're my favorite female.' They wouldn't say 'favorite black comic.'” PeopleThinkingBlackInterestingRaceFemaleMy FavoriteGenderComicVersus Author:Ilana Glazer
“Exploring female rage on film doesn't frighten me - it might frighten a lot of people in my business, but, gosh, I know a lot about that, from personal experience and friends' experiences.” PeopleKnowsMightFilmFemaleRageExploringPersonal Experiences Author:Reese Witherspoon
“You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people are ticklish, but I don't think it would be a great documentary, when you're spending 90 minutes just finding out about the physiology and psychology of tickling.” PeopleThinkingWorldWould BePsychologyMinutesFindingsFemaleSpendingFeaturesDocumentariesPhysiologyTicklingTicklish Author:David Farrier
“Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that, because there have been so few movies that have allowed women to have these leading roles, so that's Hollywood's fault.” PeopleHas BeensRolesExampleFemaleHollywoodFaultsMalesEnsembleExpendables Author:Paul Feig
“I find that as a female boss in the music industry, it's difficult to actually be treated as if you actually are the boss and to have people act on your instructions and take you seriously. Like you call up people who are working for you and say, "I'd like to see such-and-such document," and they tell you that you don't need it. Then you have to spend time convincing them that it doesn't matter whether they think you need it or not, they're supposed to hand it to you.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsMatterHandsDifficultLike YouIndustryFemaleTreatedBossInstructionDocumentsEnd TimesConvincingSpend TimeMusic Industry Author:Sinead O'Connor
“The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for us. That can obviously be exaggerated when you're a female.” PeopleArtistFemaleTreatedMusic BusinessExaggerated Author:Sinead O'Connor
“I have often felt like I was the only one fighting against female genital mutilation. There is still a huge taboo surrounding the topic, because it involves the most private parts of the female´s body. But whenever I feel like this is too much for me to do, I read e-mails and messages I receive every day from people thanking me for speaking up for them, for giving them a voice. These messages let me know that I am not alone, and that what I do is worthwhile.” PeopleKnowsGivingFeelsStillsBodyFightingFeltVoiceToo MuchHugeMessagesFemaleLet MeWorthwhileMailTopicsNot AloneTabooSpeaking UpMutilationPrivate Parts Author:Waris Dirie
“Part of what we'll have to figure out is what do you call the male spouse of a female president? Now, it's a little bit more complicated with him because people still call former presidents Mr. President.” PeopleLittlesStillsBitsPresidentFiguresLittle BitFemaleMalesComplicatedFormerSpouseFemale President Author:Hillary Clinton
“I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterKidsMotherIndustryMetsDirectorsDaughterMy FriendsFemaleDecidedAskingFeministProducersThey SaidFemale CharactersMother DaughterKids Movie Author:Geena Davis
“This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV because of all the CSI shows and Bones and whatever. I don't have to lobby anybody to add more female forensic scientists as role models. There's plenty.In real life, the people going into that field now are something like two-thirds women.” PeopleTwoRealCharacterShowsRolesStudyFieldsTvsModelsFemaleScientistThirdsAddBonesReal LifePlentyOccupationRole ModelsFemale CharactersForensicsCsi Author:Geena Davis
“I love Osho. I don't know if you would call him a philosopher; I would just call him a really cool dude. Osho really changed my life. Because the way that he spoke about emotion and the male and female energies in the world and how people react to the world around them, it's so simple, yet it has such a depth.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWayEnergySimpleEmotionChangedFemaleDepthMalesPhilosopherSpokesReally CoolChanged My Life Author:Willow Smith
“In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.” PeopleDifficultMy OwnDirectorsFemaleDirectHarderMalesCommand Author:Meryl Streep
“Well advice people have told me that is that, "If people aren't suing you, you haven't made it," which I don't necessarily believe but with greater success comes greater responsibility and being one of the few female entrepreneurs who I think has been as public as I have been, you're definitely under a spotlight. It's difficult to manage.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveWellsHas BeensMadeDifficultResponsibilityGreaterAdviceHavensFemaleEntrepreneurManageMade ItSpotlightSuing Author:Sophia Amoruso
“For [people] to be like "So what it's like dealing with female characters who are completely disgusting?" I don't think they are - does that make me weird? I made a very intentional choice to not care about that stuff, and go like "I don't care about it, I'm just gonna tell my truth and see what happens."” PeopleThinkingDoeMadeCharacterHappensCareChoicesStuffFemaleDon't CareI Don't CareDisgustingFemale CharactersMy Truth Author:Leslye Headland
“I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are really female because the writer is a woman. I've learned to let that go.” PeopleIfsKindCharacterFemaleAssumingI've LearnedNative Author:Eden Robinson
“When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us.” PeopleKindPersonsIdeasMatterWantedMovingNamesBehindsGoneMovementProductsHonorLateUniqueFemaleNotionFeministGrandmotherAncestorBellsHookExceptionalMoving AwayFeminist MovementZenithGreat Grandmother Author:Bell Hooks
“Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.” PeopleTryingSometimesBodySeemsBornDealsViolenceFemaleMalesExtremesGenderMedicalEstablishmentTransgenderPsychiatristCritiqueContinuumBinaryIntersex Author:Judith Butler
“It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.” PeopleAmericaLeftBlackFemaleBlack PeopleProtected Author:Andrew Breitbart
“I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers? Writers of color? There should be.” PeopleShouldTryingLooksHardAsksColorGayFemaleBookshelvesFemale Writers Author:Jodi Picoult
“Lots of people will contact me on Friday night, male and female. Everyone likes me because it's always a fun time being with me. I'm the life of the party, really. It doesn't matter the situation because I'll always bring the mood up.” PeopleMatterNightFunPartySituationFemaleMalesMoodLikesContactFridayFriday NightFun Times Author:Seungri
“There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.” PeoplePersonsInspireFemaleMalesInspire Others Author:Queen Latifah
“I think there are people that still hold on that like Heavy Metal like a bit of what is going on now, but it isn't all of what they love and which goes on and it's the same with me... There's still a lot of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke songs that I still happen to like a lot, but then there are a lot of Madonna and... a lot of the female singers that I like as well, but it's like liking it with different emotions, you know.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsStillsDifferentHappensSongBitsEmotionGoes OnFemaleHeavySingersRaysMetalsHeavy MetalDifferent EmotionsSam CookeFemale Singers Author:Tina Turner
“In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.” PeopleMenKindShowsAmericaUsedLostForcePresidentRightsAirFashionTvsGayDiversityFemaleCrossesFolksVicesAll KindsUsed To BeRadicalDesignerHostPilotsPakistanTransTalibanVice PresidentAdvocatingFashion DesignerAir ForceTalk ShowsFlamboyant Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I do feel, like everyone, there's not enough female directors out there, there's not enough female producers, and would like to see more people get more opportunity, more opportunity for roles for women.” PeopleFeelsEnoughOpportunityRolesDirectorsFemaleProducers Author:Barbara Crampton
“I'm very shy. But as a director and especially a female director, absolutely: How I used to walk on the court is how I walk on set. And I have to - I mean, I'm controlling 150, 200 people, and everything is on me.” PeopleMeanUsedWalksDirectorsFemaleCourtShy Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“I think the superhero platform gives the female character, you know, a relate-ability for the male audience as well. So, I think that's why people are kinda gravitating towards female super hero characters, and also female characters in general as big parts of the film. So, that's great for us, female actors who want to do roles like that, which is really great.” PeopleThinkingGivingCharacterFilmAudienceHeroFemaleReally GreatSuperhero Author:Margot Robbie
“This is a culture of female display. And the reason it's a culture of female display is that on the Upper East Side women far outnumber men, if you do the sex ratios. I can't say exactly what they are, but you could google it. People have said two to one. So, it's a female display culture because sex ratios are skewed toward men, and they sort of have their choice, even if they're married.... Also, women are economically dependent on men, and so there's that aspect of needing to perform your beauty and your scarcity.” PeopleMenReasonChoicesCultureMarriedFemaleGoogle Author:Wednesday Martin
“There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders. They're much less tolerant of female ambition, much more threatened by female power.” PeopleLiteratureLeaderAmbitionFemaleAcademic Author:Peter Beinart
“I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best time so far because there are many more women writing and women directing, women producing, and people are finally catching on to the fact that women want to go and buy tickets to see female characters and more than one in a film. So I actually think it's a very fertile time to be a woman over 40.” PeopleThinkingWritingCharacterFilmFemaleWomen Want Author:Cynthia Nixon
“If a woman isn't feeling sexual with herself, she won't respond to advances from any partner, male or female. When this woman goes dancing, she's finding a connection with her own erotic self. It might be about being on a dance floor, feeling free, not having to feel at all responsible for anybody else's well-being. For other people, it might be about going on a hike for four days by herself and reconnecting with nature and strength and endurance and beauty.” PeopleFeelingsFemaleResponsibleDancingEnduranceDance Floor Author:Esther Perel
“If you look at MMA, you don't have an amateur MMA. You have some of these young men like James Kirkland who had 140 amateur fights, I had 3. My skill level was I was just powerful as hell, I didn't know how to actually box in the beginning. I was just punching them, the skill level wasn't there. You will have one or two females that are really skillful, but who are they gonna box to get better. MMA is just more exciting because you kick and throw people on the ground and whatever. But people tuned into a fighter like me because I put people to sleep.” PeopleMenFightingSleepPowerfulHellFemaleExcitingFighterGet Better Author:Ann Wolfe
“In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.” PeopleGirlSportsAcceptingFemaleOkayAthleteActiveAcceptableSeventies Author:Billie Jean King
“Behind the cameras, there's a different problem, which I think is not unconscious gender bias. It's probably categorized more as conscious gender bias. Because everybody's known the numbers for decades. Nobody's stunned to hear there are very few female directors, only 4 or 7 percent. Everybody knows, but it doesn't change anything. It doesn't make people say, "Wow! We should change that." Nothing happens. It's utterly stagnant.” PeopleThinkingDifferentProblemConsciousFemaleGenderThings HappenUnconsciousBiasStagnant Author:Geena Davis
“The way that I'm feeling the shift in movie industry is that women are allowed to be part of the development process. So I do feel like things are changing because I'm allowed to option books or write an original screenplay or direct. Those possibilities are really wide open. I think that males still struggle to write for females, which is totally fine because I don't think I could write a really impactful male role because that's not the life that I lived. So we'll just keep shouting and say we need more opportunities for not just women but people that are just different.” PeopleThinkingWritingBookDifferentFeelingsOpportunityStrugglePossibilityFemaleDirect Author:Brie Larson
“If someone is of the opinion that biological men ought to use the men's room and biological females ought to use the women's room - he is regarded as a bigot. I find this absolutely astonishing. Especially since using a toilet facility is a matter of the privacy of other people who are in the room. It's not a matter of the rights of the transgender person.” PeopleMenOpinionHe ManFemalePrivacyTransgender Author:William Lane Craig
“Everyone always says I'm a rapper, and that I'm exactly like Peaches and M.I.A. People just take any female artist and compare me to them.” PeopleArtistFemaleCompareRapper Author:Uffie
“I don't want to face the reality of what people want from a female pop star. Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.” PeopleThinkingTryingSometimesRealityLaughingFemalePaint Author:Lady Gaga
“A lot of people started asking me about this woman director thing, which I never thought about before. And I'd never really thought about how there aren't really many female directors. I knew it, but I'd never really sat down and thought about the implications of that, and what it meant for a woman to make a movie, and how it's viewed differently when a woman makes a movie about women.” PeopleFemaleSat Author:Sophia Takal
“Something as beautiful and natural as male-female relationships have been perhaps inalterably politicized, and politicized from the standpoint that men are the predators and that men are brutes and that men are uncaring, what have you, all to get the female vote. And I just sense people are getting fed up with it entirely. They may not even know specifically why. But it's just one of the seeming gazillion things that just are not right in America and out of whack.” PeopleMenBeautifulNaturalFemaleVotePredatorFed Up Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think its funny when people say a female rapper is too sexually charged, maybe the way I do it is a little more in your face but that's because I have to be aggressive and masculine to make it in the industry. If I talk about sex blatantly, when the mainstream media says it metaphorically every day, it's not okay? It's hypocritical.” PeopleThinkingFemaleOkayYour FaceAggressiveRapperMasculineSexuallyHypocriticalNot Okay Author:Iggy Azalea
“As conscious adult women, we need to instill a different value system. Actually, it is an innate value system. We need to tell the world that being compassionate about other people does not make you weak, and it is not intrinsically a female trait. It is a trait of the evolved human being, and it is a trait that we need to hold up as something of great worth. As women, we need to promote that, emphasize that, and nurture that. This is part of what we are doing with Global Girl Media.” PeopleWorldDifferentValuesGirlConsciousFemaleWeakCompassionateTraitsNurture Author:Kamala Lopez
“Fashion has been collected and exhibited for many years. People were picking up clothing of famous individuals, like Marie Antoinette's shoe or Napoleon's hat. That part of the resistance to having fashion in museums had to do with it being associated with femininity, and with the female body. Yet, as early as the 18th century, some people were recognizing that just as you collected art, you, might think about collecting fashion for museums, because it would provide insight into the way people thought about their lives and, and the way they envisioned themselves.” PeopleThinkingArtIndividualFashionFemaleInsightFemininity18th CenturyFemale Body Author:Valerie Steele
“Aaron Sorkin wrote me one of the best female roles on television, I think. He's a wonderful writer for all people. If he chooses to write, hopefully he'll write something that involves more women next time, because I would love to do it.” PeopleThinkingWritingWonderfulFemaleHopefullyNext Time Author:Allison Janney
“I think people always have - not just journalists who help their careers, I think all people struggle with this idea that a female pop artist can write all her songs. Even I do it sometimes, you see a really good female pop artist and you're like, 'I wonder if she writes her songs.' That's never really my first initial reaction to a male popstar.” PeopleThinkingWritingSometimesHelpingArtistSongWonderStruggleFemaleJournalistPop Art Author:Ellie Rowsell
“When I was younger I would always listen to female artists that are my age now and I felt like I couldn't always connect with them because all these people would constantly sing these party songs and I couldn't always relate to them. When I was younger it felt very alienating and I try my best to be the person that I would've needed, for other people.” PeopleTryingAgeArtistSongPartyFemale Author:Beatrice Miller
“I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about the good things or the things that were exciting or interesting but also talk about the things that people in general are skeptical to talk about- the bad things that do happen. A good 50% of our lives is things that are happening that we're not necessarily super thrilled about and I feel like that's missing from pop music a lot of the time so my main goal is to be truthful about everything and not just specific things.” PeopleArtistGoalInterestingMissingFemaleExcitingGood ThingsTruthfulSkepticalPop MusicBeing TruthfulTell Me The Truth Author:Beatrice Miller
“I've never really found it that important to focus too much on the fact that I'm a female. I feel like if you make a thing of it then it becomes a "thing." For me personally, gender has always been one of the last things on my mind and I would much rather let the music do the talking. It was definitely surprising at the start to see how many people often got shocked that I would do the entire part of the composition/production/mixdown process on my own, but I don't think women are pigeonholed as much these days.” PeopleThinkingMindImportantFocusFemaleGenderComposition Author:Maya Jane Coles
“When I first came on the scene, I don't think people knew what to make of the way I dress, my aesthetic and how that ties into my music. It took a lot of explaining. You don't really see females in country music dressed in all black wearing funeral garb with netting on their face. I have a bit of a gothic sense to me in a lot of ways, with a bit of outlaw country, rockabilly and blues. My subject matter is off the cuff a little bit.” PeopleThinkingCountryBlackSceneFemaleFuneralAestheticGothicOutlaw Author:Lindi Ortega